A careful reading of the info file for ksh reveals the following near the bottom ...
-------------- BTW, the most frequently reported bug is echo hi | read a; echo $a # Does not print hi I'm aware of this and there is no need to report it. --------------- I think this is related to what was observed. What Svend reported was not a question of his, but what ksh actually printed out. (I got it the first time as well, but not on subsequent tries) neal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/